| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
"Hubal" | Arabic | An Arab idol brought from Bulka, in Syria, by Amir Ibn-Lohei, who åśśerted that it would procure Rain when wanted. It was the statue of a man in red agate; one hand being lost, a golden one was supplied. He held in his hand seven arrows without wings or feathers, such as the Arabians use in divination. This idol was destroyed in the eighth year of "the flight." Arabic |
| God name "Huban" | Elamite / Iran | Tutelary god. Equating with the Sumerian ENLIL.... |
"Huecuvoe" | Chile | The evil supreme being. Auraucanians, Chile |
| God name "Huehuecoyotl" | Aztec | The trickster god of music, dance, song. He is depicted in the as a dancing coyote with human hands and feet, accompanied by a human drummer. Aztec |
"Huh" | Egypt | The deification of eternity in the Ogdoad, his name itself meaning endlessness. Egypt |
| God name "Huisiniamui" | Peru | A god of the Sun and sky. He invented vegetation, but was also fond of headhunting and cannibalism. Peru |
| Goddess name "Huitaca" | Chibcha | Goddess of the moon, intoxication, jolly bonking and letting the good times roll. Chibcha |
| King name "Huitzilopochtli" | Aztec | The Divine leader who rescued an ancestral people from his devastated island kingdom in the Atlantic Ocean, Aztlan. Arriving in the Valley of Mexico, they built a new capital to commemorate their lost city, when Tenochtitlan was constructed on a rocky island at the center of a man-made lake. Aztec |
| God name "Huitzilopochtli aka Mexitli" | Aztec | The "blue hummingbird", god of war and the Sun as well as the patron god of the Aztec nation. |
| God name "Huitznahua" | Aztec | Collectively, the remaining brothers of God of war who were defeated. Aztec |
"Huma" | China | A fabulous Oriental bird which never alights, but is always on the wing. It is said that every head which it overshadows will wear a crown. |
| King name "Hun Batz" | Quiche | One Big Monkey. A son of one of the Seven Ahpu, he is a hero and a multi-tasking deity. Quiche |
| God name "Hun Hunapu" | Mayan / Yucatec / Quiche, Mesoamerican / Mexico | Creator god. The father of HUNAPU and Ix Balan Ku. According to the sacred Mayan text Popol Vub, he was decapitated during a football game and his head became lodged in the calabash tree which bore fruit from that day.... |
| Deity name "Hunab Ku aka Hun Itzamna" | Mayan | . The Supreme Being and the greatest deity in the pantheon. Mayan |
| God name "Hunahpu Vuch" | Quiche | A hunting-fox bitch and god of the dawn. Quiche |
| God name "Hunapu" | Mayan / Yucatec / Quiche, Mesoamerican / Mexico | Creator god. According to the sacred text Popol Vub, the son of HUN HUNAPU and the twin brother of Ix Balan Ku. Tradition has it that, like his father, he was decapitated in a historic struggle with the underworld gods and subsequently became the Sun god, while his sibling is the apotheosis of the moon.... |
| Goddess name "Hung Sheng (boly one)" | Chinese | Guardian god. A deity who protects fishing boats and their crews against danger at sea in the Southern Ocean. His role is similar to that of the goddess KUAN YIN. Little is known of the origin of Hung Sheng, but he was allegedly a mortal who died on the thirteenth day of the second moon, which falls two days before the spring equinox when the sea dragon king, Lung Wang, is believed to leave the ocean and ascend into the heavens. The god is propitiated with cakes made from the first grain of the year, on the fifth day of the fifth month and in some traditions he is seen as an aspect of the sea dragon king.... |
| God name "Hung Sing" | China | Guardian god of of fishing boats and their crews China |
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